Future Paintball gun on TV

[mcveighr]

The concept of railguns has been around for a while, how many people do you see using them?

I remember years ago when people doubted WDP's claims of 80,000 shots per 12V recharge. I have gotten over 50,000 in two different Angels before recharging "just to be safe."

The battery in the angel does very little compared to what this would have to do.

[magnanamus]

What about a spring on the front of the bolt where it contacts the ball?

[Igotu]

http://home.insightbb.com/~jmengel4/...ail-intro.html I think hitler had people working on the design of a rail gun at the end of WWII never thought Hitler could help paintball

http://www.powerlabs.org/movies/rgunshot.mpg This is a video of a rail gun so when i was rading about this they were saying that the rail gun was emiting PLASMA after firing, so if they can make rail guns this beefy it would probly not be that hard to make one that toned down and smaller.

[CaptaiN_JacK]

I think people need to stop spending so much time on bps and start worrying about tactics and evolving the game itself and making that better. I think paintball eguipment has reached it's peak and trying to make the equipment better will only result in overkill while the game lags behind.

just my .02

[JrnyFan1985]

I think people need to stop spending so much time on bps and start worrying about tactics and evolving the game itself and making that better. I think paintball eguipment has reached it's peak and trying to make the equipment better will only result in overkill while the game lags behind.

just my .02

no, no it hasn't.

[1ofkind]

Okay so in the future we will use magnets to propel metal balls excatly 300 fps. Yeah sounds like fun count me in!

[OysterBoy]

I'm all for developing this concept. It could very well mean the advent of supercharged military grade weapons and constant war, but hey...

[Onryou]

it was my understanding that it was a Gauss rifle...
similar concepts but different applications. Rail guns use 2 polarized rails to accelerate projectiles, essentially just 2 magnetic fields kind of like a pitching machine. A gauss rifle uses several magnets in a row to superaccelerate a projectile.
I can't say it was the same episode on TechTV but they had a guy on the ScreenSavers that demonstrated a gauss rifle. He put a normal paperclip through a full cola can at about 5 feet with only 5 magnets i think. The magnets are set up in a way that each space between the magnets doubled the velocity of the projectile.
I guess you could use this technology to project a paintball, provided it was formed around a small ammount of ferrous material (a BB maybe?)

[mkmckinley]

Let's just all start using .22's and body armor.

[OysterBoy]

it was my understanding that it was a Gauss rifle...
similar concepts but different applications. Rail guns use 2 polarized rails to accelerate projectiles, essentially just 2 magnetic fields kind of like a pitching machine. A gauss rifle uses several magnets in a row to superaccelerate a projectile.
I can't say it was the same episode on TechTV but they had a guy on the ScreenSavers that demonstrated a gauss rifle. He put a normal paperclip through a full cola can at about 5 feet with only 5 magnets i think. The magnets are set up in a way that each space between the magnets doubled the velocity of the projectile.
I guess you could use this technology to project a paintball, provided it was formed around a small ammount of ferrous material (a BB maybe?)

Speaking of gauss rifles, I ordered away for a 'home kit'. I wish I still had it because it is dead-powerful, and it really taught me to apreciate power... You can easily make one actually, get a wooden bevelled ruler and a set of I beleive 3 or 4 magnets, along with 4 or 5 ball bearings. You place a ball bearing next to a magnet, one per magnet, on teh far side. Then I think you just flick a ball bearing into the back end, starting the 'gauss process'. It was once beleive that you could achieve perpetual motion but thats been disspelled, either because the velocity would increase too much or ( More likely ) because the ball bearings would need to be reset in between each lap...

[Igotu]

The technology allready here it just needs to be made, Im toying with the idea of making one rite now :) but if your serious check this website out and got to theories it shows you how to make a simple coil gun. www.coilgun.com

[OysterBoy]

Actually, one of my future projects is to buy a mock rifle, prefferably a Gsg3 replica for its length. I then plan to gut a slot from the barrel to the butt and set up a gauss system inside. Bear in mind it would just be for 'Can I do it?' sake, I wouldnt try harming anything with it. Magnets fascinate me to the fullest.

[sgt_easton]

The only real application for paintball I can see of a coil gun is this: Have the bolt move and be reset by changing the polarity of the coil. It would be like an autococker without a front block or main spring. BPS would be governed by the loader (obviously) and the rate at which the polarity can be changed. Kinda like a mag-lev train that goes forward-reverse-forward-reverse. But, you'd still need a gas source. There's no way you can generate enough velocity without it.

Purely speculation, but this dosen't seem to hard to make. Any takers?

[1ofkind]

This thread is old, I forgot wat it was even about... Anyway it wasnt possible because they used metal balls.

[Won Hunglo]

Do not think of the magnet propelling a ball. The magnet is propelling the bolt. The ball is there for the 300 FPM ride.